RONNIE MOORE is ready to cut five minutes off the half time break for his players in an attempt to cure Tranmere's second-half blues.

The Rovers boss plans to send his team back onto the pitch for a five-minute warm-up before games restart in the future.

Moore is worried by a pattern that shows Tranmere's performance levels dipping in the second half of a high proportion of matches this season.

They were beaten by two second half goals at Bradford City last Saturday and surrendered a 2-0 half time lead to Huddersfield in a drawn game at Prenton Park last Tuesday.

Statistics show Tranmere scored 10 out of 15 League One goals in the first half of games.

Moore said: "I don't know whether 15 minutes at half time is too long for our players butwe are going to get them in the dressing room for 10, then send them out for five minutes before the restart to warm them up.

"We will see whether that gives them some help psychologically."

Moore added: "We have conceded goals early in the second half of games far too often.

"Every manager of every club will say the same thing to their players before the start of the second half: keep it tight for 20 minutes, don't concede. Don't give the opposition a lift.

"But it is exactly what we have done."

Moore says he is also concerned that his team are not finding the resilience to bounce back when they go behind.

He said: "I don't want to go 1-0 down in any game anywhere but you know it will happen. We have to be mentally strong from numbers one to 11 and show the willingness to fight and get ourselves back into games.

"If we lose all of the games in which we go behind we are not going to get promoted."

Moore is preparing to move into the loan market to strengthen Tranmere's challenge.

A central defender will be his top target as worries persist about an injury to Chris McCready, who missed the Bradford game.

Moore explained: "We are testing Chris' hamstring butitcould be a back injury. It has left us short defensively.

"We have five defenders and if one is injured we have only the four who are playing.

"I have spoken to the chairman about bringing someone in and she has given me the go-ahead.

"We need to be able to move rapidly. We can't go to Swansea on Friday with just four defenders."

Moore would prefer to sign an experienced defender and has a list of options from chief scout David Philpotts.